PSYCHOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF

OVERVIEW

Year of Establishment: Undergraduate – 1987

The Undergraduate department was established in the year 1987 and Post Graduate Department started in 2017. Program of Psychology at St. Thomas College, Bhilai, provides comprehensive learning of Psychology by covering all the important subfields of Psychology like Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Life Span Development, and Research Methodology and statistics. It aims to provide a strong theoretical grounding and skills to understand and deal with human experience. The course necessitates use of application based pedagogical practices for teaching which include practical exercises, group discussions and field studies.

The faculty of the department draws upon theoretical and methodological pluralism which is inherent to Psychology and brings their own research expertise and field experiences to enable students find their own ways of understanding and applying the discipline. The study of psychology equips students to pursue careers and research in the fields of mental health, human resources, social work, education, advertising, market research, law – to name a few. The Masters program offers three choices of specialization namely Clinical, Educational and Management.

Bachelor of Arts

Three Year Degree Course

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B.A. Part I

B.A. Part II

B.A. Part III

Master of Arts

Regular- 2 Years (Semester Pattern)
Private- 2 Years (Annual Pattern)

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M.A. Semster I to IV

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M.A. Part I & II

Dr. Debjani Mukherjee

Associate Professor & Head of the Department
M.A Ph.D
Mobile No: 9827169925
e-Mail: mdebjani10@gmail.com

Overview of Association

The Psychometrician, an association under the aegis of the Department of Psychology has been the hub of various activities that provide students and teachers an opportunity to explore the multiple dimensions of the discipline. The Department has collaborated with many local government schools and worked with the students for various psychometric testing and career guidance to help students in shaping their future. Students are encouraged to work with the special children at schools for mentally impaired and other types of disability. Individuals with mental and emotional challenges are counselled by members of this forum. The association offers many avenues of academic and creative expression to students. Academic meets and seminars are organised every year. Events like the ‘Mental Health Day’, ‘Open House’ take place annually.

Activities

2018-2019

The students of the P.G department of Psychology, St Thomas College Bhilai, conducted Intelligence test (I.Q) on the students of Govt. Higher Secondary School Maroda Tank, Bhilai on 10/8/18.

A Lecture was conducted on 14/7/18 by the dept. of Psychologyfor the BBA students on POSITIVE ATTITUDE ‘TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MANAGER’.

A guest lecture and workshop on REBT was conducted by the Dept for PG students from 10/9/18 to 12/9/18.The resource person was Ms Sumana Mishra,alimni 2014 and a Practicing Clinical Psychologist

The students visited Prayas Shravan ViklangSansthan, Durg, a school for hearing impaired students and a training college for the B.Ed&D.Ed students on 8/10/18. Students were guided on the instructional pattern of teaching of the hearing impaired.

A guest lecture on Rehabilitation Psychology delivered by Ms. Swapnil Jana, a rehab psychologist for the B.A and M.A students on 13/11/18. She spoke on the needs and scope of rehabilitation psychology.

A guest lecture &two day workshop on the topic “Human Development” was given by Mrs. Deepa Chaudhury, an International counselor practicing at Singapore from 11/1/2019 & 14/1/2019

She also gave parenting tips for Indian parents and childhood development.

The P.G Students of the Dept of Psychology St. Thomas College, Bhilai, visited Aakansha on 08/03/2019.

Aakansha is school for the mentally retarded children at Raipur. Students learnt about the therapy used on the special children like the speech, occupational, motor, physiotherapy etc.

The Dept. Of Psychology Faculty was invited to conduct a workshop and an orientation program at MGM Raipur for the parents of 10^th and 12^th class on 29/04/2019

2017-2018

Counseling session for hostel inmates Date-2/8/17

Conducted Seminar on effect of Drug abuse on human body Date-4/8/17

Conducted Work shop on Work-Life Balance for newly appointed Adhoc staff Date-5/8/17

Conducted Counseling session on Positive Parenting at M. G. M Public School Shanti Nagar, Bhilai Date-26/8/17

Visit to Home for the Aged Date-10/10/17

Guest lecture Mrs Swapnil Romita Jana (rehabilitation psychologist) on Career Options in Psychology & Scope of Rehabilitation Psychology Date-14/10/17

Conducted Work shop on Research Methodology at Govt V.Y.T. College Durg Date -11/1/18

Dr. Debjani Mukherjee

Associate Professor & Head of the Department

Area of Specialization

Organizational Behaviour
Positive Psychology
Guidance and Counseling

Affiliations

Member of the Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Academy of Applied Psychology and International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).

Awards

VIIIth Merit Position in BA (All Humanities) in HamvatiNandanBahugunaGarhwal University, Srinagar, Uttranchal.1985
2012, Early Career Award from the International Society for the Study ofBehavioural Development in Edmonton Canada. The ISSBD awarded grant of 1500$ plus registration and other allowances to attend the Congress

International Linkages and Collaborative Research

Year of Research	University/Agency	Area of Work
2008-2010	University of Roma, Italy	Cross-national study on the extent to which basic values structure political thoughts
2014 -2015	University of Roma, Italy	Cross-national study on the positivity and its dimensions in youth
2015-2016	UNICEF Co-Investigator	Assess Cognitive Impairment in Children 12-18 years of age having Anaemia and more specifically Sickle Cell Anaemia in Chhattisgarh

Courses Attended

Attended two refresher courses on criminology and forensic sciences, three weeks each, conducted by the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and one orientation program at Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur.

Courses Conducted

Convener and Organising Secretary- National Level Workshop on Research Methods and Data Processing in Socio Behavioural Research organized by the Department of Psychology from 11^th Feb – 15^th Feb 2013.Sponsored by UGC.

Additional Responsibilities

Member of Board of Studies, Pt. Ravishankar University, Raipur.
Member Board of Studies, Hemchand Yadav University, Durg.
Member Examination Committee, Hemchand Yadav University, Durg.
Convener, Guidance and Counselling Cell, St. Thomas College, Bhilai.
Incharge and Facilitator- Yoga Center, St. Thomas College, Bhilai.
Founder Head of the Dept. of Journalism and Mass communication, KushabhauThakrePatrakaritaAvamJansanchar Vishwavidyalaya (2012 – 2018)
Member Joint Appraisal Team (JAT) as a Programme expert for CG Govt. State Aids Control Society (C.G SACS)

Publications

Paper titled “Occupational Stress and its Effects on Official Status in Relation to Job Involvement” has been published in the Indian Journal of Psychometry and Education, Vol 37 (1), January, 2006.
Paper titled “Interactive role of Sex And Official Status on Job Involvement: An Empirical Study” has been published in the Journal of Psycho Cultural Dimensions, Vol 22 (2) October 2006.
Paper titled “Impact of Industrial Hierarchy on Effective Work Involvement.” Has been published in the journal Psychological Foundations published by the Psychological Foundation Trust, New Delhi, Vol 9(1), Registration No. 71123/99. March 2007.
Paper titled “Impact of Area of Work on Job Involvement among the Executives of Steel Sector” has been published in the Journal of Psychosocial Research, Vol 4 Issue 1, ISSN 0973-5410, Jan-June, 2009.
Paper titled “Dyslexia: Insight into Verbal Disabilities and Possible Interventions” has been published in the Journal of Psychosocial Research, Vol 4 Issue 1, ISSN 0973-5410, July-Dec 2009.
Paper titled “Implicature in pragmatics: psychological interpretations” has been published in Indian Journal of Psychology and Mental Health,Vol 3, Number 5, ISSN0973-7286, August, 2009
Chapter titled “Study of Voice Coherence in Children: A Case Study from Psycholinguistic Perspective” has been published in book titled “Clinical Child Psychology”, ISBN 978-81-7835-761-4. Kalpaz Publications New Delhi, 2009.
Paper titled “Stress to Eustress: Role of Official Hierarchy” has been published in Indian Journal of Psychology and Education,Vol 1, No. 1, ISSN 2231-1432. January 2011.
Chapter titled “Women in Industry” has been published in book “Globzlisation and Gender” ISBN 978-81-316-0447-2 published by Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2011.
Paper titled “Language and Thought: The Chicken and Egg Syndrome” has been published in Everyman’s Science, Vol XLV No.6,ISSN 0531-495 X (Feb 2011), journal brought out by the Indian science Congress Association
Paper titled ‘Facilitating Productive Work-Life with Respect to Life-Orientation, Gender, and Occupational Stress’, has been published in Journal of Organisational and Human Behaviour, Vol 1, issue, ISSN 2277-3274. 3^rd July 2012.
Paper titled ‘Occupational Stress and Job Involvement among management executives across Different Age Groups’, has been published in Journal of Human and Work Management, Vol 1, No. 1,ISSN 2320-8384. July 2013.
Paper titled ‘The Architectural Mind and Me’ has been published in Everyman’s Science, Vol XLVIII No.6. ISSN 0531-495 X (Feb 2014), journal brought out by the Indian science Congress Association
Chapter ‘Working Dynamics of Male Executives and Female Executives’ has been published in a book ‘Reaching Our Voices: Psychology of Women’ by Lambert Academic Publisher Germany, ISBN 978-3-569-54001-1. 2014.
Chapter ‘Perceptual shifting in Yoga Practitioners: Motivating Factors ‘has been published in book ‘Spirituality and Human Psyche’ ISBN 978-1-4828-6759-6. 2015
Paper titled ‘A comparative study of gender study in Industry: An empirical study’ has been published in International Journal of Psychosocial Research, Vol 4, No 2 ISSN 2320-6381, December 2015.
Paper titled ‘Interplay of Occupational Stress and Eustress across Official Hierarchy’,published in National Journal of Psychology, ISSN 2395-7808 Vol II, issue 1 April 2016.
Paper titled ‘A Study of Degenerating Emotional Maturity in the Aged Adults due to Financial Insecurity’, published in The Journal of Psychosocial Research: Vol. 12, No. 2, ISSN 0973-5410. (Jul-Dec. 2017)
Co Authored Book ‘Basic Psychological Processes’, published by Psychological Corporation, Agra (2019)
Paper titled ‘Enhancing Positive Mental Health among Adolescents: Role of Yoga’, published in Journal of Psychosocial Research: Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jul-Dec. 2019)

Conferences

Presented papers at many National and International Conferences. International travels sponsored by UGC, ICMR, ICSSR, C.G Council of Science and Technology etc.

Presented a paper ‘To study the effect of organizational stress and life orientation on job involvement’, at the National conference of applied psychology, Calcutta University, India.

21 – 25 Dec. 2005

Dept. Of Applied Psychology,

Calcutta University, India

Presented a paper “Impact of Life Orientation and Sex on Job Involvement” at the XVI th conference of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) at IIT Mumbai, India.

Dec 14 – 16, 2006

National Academy of Psychology

(NAOP) and

Dept. of Humanities,

IIT Mumbai, India.

Presented a paper “Changing of Occupational Stress to Eustress: A Comparative Study of Different Age Groups” at the 11^th international and 42nd national conference of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP), at Jamia MilliaIslamia, New-Delhi, India.

Feb 15 – 17, 2007

Indian Academy of Applied

Psychology (IAAP), and

Dept. of psychology

Jamia MilliaIslamia,

New-Delhi,

India.

2007, presented a paper “Facilitating Productive Work Life with respect to Life-Orientation, Gender and Occupational Stress” at the International Conference on Psychology in Mental Health at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences {NIMHANS}, Bangalore, India.

July 26 – 28, 2007

National Institute of Mental Health

and Neuro Sciences

NIMHANS,

Bangalore, India.

2007, paper “Role of Organisational Hierarchy in Perceiving Occupational Stress as Eustress” presented at the national conference on cognitive psychology at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Nov 29 – 30, 2007

Indian Statistical Institute,

Kolkata, India.

2008, paper “Converting Occupational Stress to Eustress: Role of official Hierarchy” presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology 2008, at Berlin, Germany.

June 18-21, 2009.

International Congress of Psychology

And Humbolt University, Berlin.

Germany.

2008, paper “Exploring New Dynamics of Job- Involvement: An Empirical study of Life Orientation, Gender and Occupational Stress” presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology 2008, at Berlin, Germany.

June 18-21, 2009.

International Congress of Psychology

And Humbolt University, Berlin.

Germany.

2008, paper “Effect of Affective Stimulation on Cognitive-Affective Impairments of Autism” presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology 2008, at Berlin, Germany.

June 18-21, 2009.

International Congress of Psychology

And Humbolt University, Berlin.

Germany.

2009, paper “Life Orientation: An Important variable in the Placement Policy” presented at the First World Congress on Positive Psychology Philadelphia, USA.

June 18-21, 2009.

International Association of

Positive Psychology, Philadelphia,

USA

2009, paper “Life-Orientation: Role in Placement and Job-Involvement” presented at the 11^th European Congress of Psychology, Oslo, Norway.

July 7 -10, 2009

European Congress of

Psychology

and

Norwegian Psychological Society.

2010, paper “Facilitating Positive Mental Health: Interactive Role of Individual’s Orientation and Work Area”, presented at the Sixth World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, Washington DC, USA.

November 17 – 19, 2010.

World Conference on the Promotion

of Mental Health and Prevention

of Mental and Behavioural

Disorders, Clifford Beer

Foundation. WHO.

Washington DC, USA.

2012,Intercepting Developmental Mental Disabilities Among Geriatrics: Positive Target Interventions presented at 23 rd Congress of International Society for the Study of Behavioural

Development

July 8-12, 2012

International Society for the Study of

Behavioural Development

Edmonton, Canada

2013,Intercepting Degenerating Emotional Maturity in the Aged Adults due to Financial Insecurity and Regenerating it, presented at III World Congress of Positive Psychology

June 18-23, 2013

International Association of

Positive Psychology,

L.A, USA.

2014‘Social Psychaitric Interventions on Emotional Maturity Affected by Financial Status among the Elderly’, 28^th International Congress of Applied

Psychology, Paris, France.

8^th-13^th July 2014

International Congress of Applied

Psychology, Paris, France

2015, Role of Recruitment Managers in Facilitating Happiness and Mental Well Being at Work Place: a study across genders

Presented at IV World Congress of Positive Psychology.

June 2015

International Association of

Positive Psychology,

Florida, USA

Exploring Happy work Life- Role of Human Resource Managers, Presented at V World Congress of Positive Psychology.

Social Psychiatry enhancing positive mental health among adolescents: Role of Yoga

Exploring Dimensions of Life Orientation as a contributor to Happy Work Life

5th World Congress on Positive Psychology

Montreal, Canada. 13 July – 16 July 2017

6th World Congress on Positive Psychology

Melbourne, Australia, 18July – 21 July 2019

6th World Congress on Positive Psychology

Melbourne, Australia, 18July – 21 July 2019

International Association of

Positive Psychology, Montreal

Canada

International Association of

Positive Psychology,

Melbourne Australia

International Association of

Positive Psychology,

Melbourne Australia

Resource Person

Resource Person- Workshop On Research Methods and Data Analysis	3^rd May 2013	National Law University, New Delhi
Speaker- Mental Health and Positive Attitude	15^th February 2014	Dept. of Management Studies, Rungta college of engineering and technology, Bhilai.
Speaker, Topic- Career In Psychology	29^th September 2014	Govt VYT P.G Autonomous College, Durg.
Faculty Development Program, ‘Statistics- An Enabling Tool for Research Methodology’	4^th – 17^th May 2015	Dept. of Management Studies, Rungta college of engineering and technology, Bhilai.
Speaker , Topic- Positive Psychology	31^st December 2015	Govt VYT P.G Autonomous College, Durg.
Resource person ‘Vertical interaction course for Senior Police Officers (IPS)’	7^th September 2016	National Law University,New Delhi
Resource person ‘Development of Personality and Positive Thinking’	16^th December, 2016	Govt. Dr. W.W Patankar P.G. College, Durg.
Resource person ‘Orientation Program’ for Adhoc/guest Lecturers.	3^rd January 2017	Govt. Digvijay Autonomous P.G. college, Rajnandgaon
Conducted workshop for parents and students on the topic- Bridging the Generation Gap	23^rd April 2017	MGM Public School, Bhilai
Resource Person at a Career Counselling Program for higher secondary students	14^th August 2017	Govt. Higher Secondary School, Pahandor Village, Durg, Distt.
Resource person at National Level Workshop on Research Methods- Questionnaire Development	10^th – 12^th January 2018	Govt VYT P.G Autonomous College, Durg.
Resource Person at Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE) Program on Ensuring Safety for Children, recognised by RCI.	3 October 2019 – 5 October 2019	Prayas, Teachers Training Institute (HI), Bhilai

Dr. Jyoti Bakshi

Assistant Professor

Highlights of Achievement

Principal Investigator of a Minor Research Project funded by University Grants Commission [UGC], New Delhi, India 2008-2010

Research Publication

Comparative study of enzyme dehydrogenase activity inCicer arietinum and Arachishypogea.Current Research in Science and Technology2013 pp 16-17.Praveen Jain, Meenakshi Bharadwaj and Jyoti Bakshi.
Impairment of Scavenging Enzymes mediated Seed Ageing in Jamun (Syzygiumcuminii) seed. International Journal of Life Sciences Research ISSN 2348-3148 (online) April – June 2019Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp: (18-25), Jyoti Bakshi¹, S.C. Naithani²,
Membrane Perturbations in ageing Jamun (Syzygiumcuminii) Seeds. International Journal of Scientific Research and Review 2279-0543 (Online) Jyoti Bakshi April – June 2019

Academic

Orientation programme, 28.01.11.to 24.02.11, Academic Staff College, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur.

Seminars, Symposiums and Workshops

S.No	EVENT	VENUE	DATE	STATUS
1.	National Seminar on “Botanical Researches: Present Scenario and Future Prospects”	Department of Botany Govt. College of Science Raipur C.G. India	January 29^th -30^th 2008	Presented a paper
2.	National Conference on “Advances in Biological Sciences”	School of Life Sciences, Pt. RSU, Raipur, Chhattisgarh	November 5^th -7^th, 2011	Presented a paper
3.	International Conference On “Plant Science in Post genomic Era	School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University	February, 17^th -19^th, 2011	Presented a paper
4.	National Conference On “Recent Advances in Biological Sciences”	School of Life Sciences Pt. Ravi ShankarShukla University, Raipur	November 25^th -27^th, 2013	Presented a paper
5.	Workshop on “Discovery of Potential bioactive compound from Local botanical resources –invitro studies to drug designing”.	St. Thomas College, Bhilai Conducted by Nitza Biologicals	March 3^rd-9^th 2016	Attended
6.	Workshop on “Participative Training Methodology”	St. Thomas College, Bhilai Conducted by NUSSD-TISS	May 13^th-14^th 2017	Attended
7.	Workshop on Electronic Herbarium: Digital Database of Dicot Plants	Conducted by Prof. T. Shrinivasu Department of Botany, RTM University, Nagpur (MH)	November 18-19 2017	Attended
8.	FDP on Innovative Methods	Conducted by Kalinga University, Raipur	2019	Attended
9.	FDP on Research Based Pedagogical Tools	Conducted by ITM University, Raipur	2019	Attended